Atom N570 vs Phenom II X3 P820

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Primary details

Comparing Phenom II X3 P820 and Atom N570 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2732not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Series3x AMD Phenom IIIntel Atom
Power efficiency2.52no data
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)Pineview (2009−2011)
Release date12 May 2010 (14 years ago)1 March 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$86

Detailed specifications

Phenom II X3 P820 and Atom N570 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores3 (Tri-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads34
Base clock speedno data1.66 GHz
Boost clock speed1.8 GHz1.67 GHz
Bus rate3600 MHz666 MHz
L1 cache384 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache1.5 MB512K (per core)
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm45 nm
Die sizeno data87 mm2
Number of transistorsno data176 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Phenom II X3 P820 and Atom N570 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1
SocketS1FCBGA559
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt8.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Phenom II X3 P820 and Atom N570. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsVirtualization, AMD64, Advanced Virus Protection, SSE(1,2,3,4a)Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3
VirusProtect+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Demand Based Switchingno data-

Security technologies

Phenom II X3 P820 and Atom N570 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Phenom II X3 P820 and Atom N570 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data-
VT-xno data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Phenom II X3 P820 and Atom N570. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data2 GB
Max memory channelsno data1

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel GMA 3150

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Phenom II X3 P820 1560
+176%
Atom N570 566

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Phenom II X3 P820 4169
+156%
Atom N570 1630

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Phenom II X3 P820 2043
+177%
Atom N570 738

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 May 2010 1 March 2011
Physical cores 3 2
Threads 3 4
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 8 Watt

Phenom II X3 P820 has 50% more physical cores.

Atom N570, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months, 33.3% more threads, and 212.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Phenom II X3 P820 and Atom N570. We've got no test results to judge.


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